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What is the name of this app that you've used to test the read/write speeds? Cheers

I only have one word to comment on this set up, Awesome! Man you can never have too much data. I take it you don not run these guys 24/7?

Like the fact you used the CF cards, nice.

Wow, digging that rig, perhaps you'd consider a trade? I'm guessing not. That server would look the part in any server room racking. Nice work.

Mate, good choice of hardware and craftsmanship in the assembly, I especially like the cabling too .

Cheers for the testing funbubba, I'm going to roll out v4.5.6 on both my unRAID boxes soon. As for the IP KVM, yuo could eBay a second hand one for a reasonable price if you tried, and some SuperMicro mobo's have an additional IP module which gives you, even BIOS control, but this topic should be directed/posted to another section of the forum . Thanks again for you're efforts.

Hi funbubba. Thanks for the reply. Do you use WOL? If so, does it work OK with v4.5.6? Cheers.

Hi funbubba, great looking rig you have there, awesome cabling. Just out of interest, what unRAID OS version are you running? I have the same mobo as you and was thinking of upgrading from v4.5.1 to v4.5.6, but wanted feedback from others who have my board running unRAID > v4.5.1, whether they had any problems. Cheers.

Thanks for the comments guys. @boof: The top 120mm fans I installed them as I got a bargain on four CoolerMaster 120mm fans, but I would of installed them eventually after getting past the 4 disk mark. The cooling in general I find to be up to standard. It operates between 23 ~ 25C (73 to 77F) at start up, being that it has been running for about five minutes or so in room temperature. Normally the server sits between 37 ~ up to 39C (99 ~ 102F). On a summers day with air conditioning set to 23C, the disks can run as high as 41 ~ 43C (106 ~ 110F). 43C or even 45C without no air con is the highest that I've seen the disks run at, and if the disks run any higher then that, I would switch it off soon as possible. The CoolerMaster 590 case makes cooling a breeze (pardon the pun) as you can add up to five 120mm fans and a (I think) 82mm fan behind the location of the CPU socket too. The last couple of cases I've bought have been Antec and they seem to offer very good air flow, cooling and operate much more silently too. Last week I build a new desktop (recycling the Gigabyte mobo mentioned before) and bought an Antec 600 case (http://www.techpowerup.com/106392/Antec_Readies_Six_Hundred_PC_Case.html). I was surprised on how quiet and cool it operates, the same for my Antec Fusion Max case for my HTPC as well. My next unRAID server I will highly consider an Antec case or a Lian case, though the metal tabs dividing the 5.25in bays in most cases these days seem to be a pain with most disk enclosures on the market. @WeeboTech: I too like to look at this thread and it is my favourite on this forum. It helps with ideas and how creative people are. From the very humble/basic of designs to the most complex and beastly rigs that members have built. It is 'each to their own' in terms of how people build their rigs and in the end does what we all want the any unRAID server to do, host our files with redundancy (and with other services/addon no doubt too ). @Joe L: All the SATA cables are 50mm in length, but has time has when on, I bought these cables from different suppliers and some have slightly different headers and differ in the red cable colouring (yeah, you're probably thinking I'm a nut), but I like to have everything the same, neat, tidy and as symmetrical and even as possible (It must be a condition I guess ). I might buy a complete set of SATA cables from one supplier one day, make sure their all the same type/kind and re-cable it all again. At the moment, the server works fine and I guess it isn't by any means a priority job to get done anytime soon. I cannot think of another way to re-cable it besides the style that I've done so. Thats what make me take so long to build a rig or PC, the cabling part! .

This is an update to my unRAID Server. Since my last post on this thread, I've replaced the original Gigabyte MA770-US3 with a Asus M4A785T-M board and have installed another (and final) disk enclosure to occupy another four disks in the near future. I guess when I fill up the last 4 - 3 disk enclosure, I'll be (and I'm already thinking about) building a replacement server. I sucessor to this server would include an Antec 1200 case or something good and sturdy which has 12 5.25 bays, use SuperMico CSE-M35T-1 Black for disk enclosures, get a replacement heavy duty PSU like what I have currently, a SuperMicro mobo and some SATA cards too. I might replace all of the existing SATA cables and get all of them with new one which are all the same type and brand (when I have spare time). The current hardware specifications I have at present with this rig are as follows: Case: CoolerMaster Centurion 590 Power Supply: Antec TruePower 650W Motherboard: Asus M4A785T-M (6x SATA ports on board) Disk Enclosure(s): 4x SNT-3141 SATA-II Hot-Swap 4 Drive RAID Enclosures CPU: AMD Athlon II X2 Dual Core 245 2.9GHz CPU RAM: Kingston DDR2 2GB ValueRAM module USB Drive: SanDisk Micro Cruzer 2GB SATA RAID Controllers: 2x Generic PCI SATAII Controller (Sil 3124-based Chipset) Hard Disks: 8x Seagate 1.5TB 7200RPM 32MB Cache disks unRAID OS: unRAID Pro 4.5.1

Hi aplhazo, a very neat and tidy rig you have, I especially like the cable work you've done. If I was building this rignfor me and asked you to do it, I couldn't of done it as good then that. Good piece of kit you have too and good choice of hardware. Looks very professional and it seems it didn't require too much work to assemble too.

Very good work KeeWay. I must admit I really like the rig. I also like the Supermicro CSE-M35T-1B disk enosures too. I wouldlike to replace the ones I have currently with those ones.

That is a mighty fine rig you have there pfp. I knew I should of bought an Antec case with x12 5.25 bays. Your server looks neat, tidy, well built, but no disk enclosures? Even still, I like it.

Hi Rajahal. The disk enclosures include trays, which the actual tray is made from a solid single piece of alloy, mounted on to a ABS plastic front/handle (very strong and sturdy engineering), which has a spring-loaded handle. It wasn't cheap ($125 AUD each disk enclosure excluding delivery), but it wasn't expensive too and it is doing the job quite well. Thanks for the cabling comment, yeah well I like to be a perfectionist when it comes to PC/Server assembly, and yeah it did take a while to get it the way I liked . Thanks.

Hi WeeboTech. The disk enclosures I bought were from eBay, their called SNT-3141 SATA-II Hot-Swap 4 Drive RAID Enclosure Server. I've seen a lot of them for sale on eBay and thought I'd buy them, seeing that they look sturdy, which they are. Here is a link below of one auction listing: http://cgi.ebay.com.au/SNT-3141-SATA-II-Hot-Swap-4-Drive-RAID-Enclosure-Server_W0QQitemZ310187757204QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_15?hash=item4838a18e94 The disk enclosure is mage from solid aluminum, the disk drawers are made from solid aluminum too, with the handles made from strong ABS plastic. The link mentions the specifications. They seem pretty good and do the job for me.

Hi neilt0. I've uploaded better shots of my rig. Might be a little too big now . Thanks for posting your pics, but they are tiny! Do you have any higher resolution ones?

Yeah i know there a little rank. i'll try and post some better pic's hopefully soon. Thanks.

This is my rig below. I was nspired to get some of these parts from this forum. I have a CoolerMaster Centurion 590 case, Antec TruePower 650W Power Supply, Gigabyte GA-MA770-US3 System Board, AMD Athlon II X2 Dual Core 245 2.9GHz CPU, 2 GB Kingston Value RAM, seven 1.5TB Seagate disks (about 8TB of storage), two 3 to 4 disk enclosures and a SanDisk Cruzer 2GB for the unRAID OS (I installed it inside my case). I'm hoping this year to to install another additional disk enclosure, 5 more disks and I want to get an additional SATA RAID card (either a 8 Port 16x PCIe or two 4 Port 1x PCIe cards) to replace my PCI card. If I run out of room and need more disks, I'll be getting a Antec case which these days can hold 12 5.25 bays.

The 's3.sh' script that I was using integrated the 'sync' command into it, so it would sync all disks and place the server to sleep. I've now reverted back to using the 'powerdown' command as I've resolved the WOL from a powered off state, not sleep/suspend. I had to roll back to 4.5.1, as it stopped working after the 4.5.3 update. Strange, but it is good to know the wattage it consumes when in sleep mode. Thanks.

I've been using the 's3.sh' script for a few days and it is fine, the server sleeps in about 10 seconds and wakes up, to be up and ready no longer than 10 seconds. My question is (might be a an obvious answer), though I can't hear my PSU running, and giving it still needs to keep RAM powered to hold it's contents, will this draw large amounts of power to do this? Also, If I disconnect the power cord or switch off the PSU for longer then a few seconds, the suspended state will no longer be valid?

This seems interesting, so you just download the file, copy it into a location, evoke the install in the go script and replace the 'echo 3 >/proc/acpi/sleep' with this utility? What is the differences from using the s3.sh to this utility and how would you set it up to run once all HDD's go to sleep? Thanks. Zenwalk is a derived from Slackware, just like unRAID is. We can get the pm-utils from the Slackware distribution: ftp://slackware.osuosl.org/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/ap/pm-utils-1.2.6.1-i486-1.txz

The only way I power off my server is using the "poweroff" command. I don't power it off any other way. It present, i've set my server to sleep after the hard drives sleep. This works a treat for a wol magic packet, but about 2 month's ago, wol using the powerdown command stopped working. It's interesting it no longer works.I've done a full reboot, did a powerdown to power off the server, but wol no longer works.

Thanks for clearing up the logic behind the script. I'll have the been-up corrected to beep-up. I've been testing this new setup and it seems to work and the server is a lot faster to become ready than before as it just has to wake up and spin the disks, not do a full boot up, load up the image files from usb, etc. I'm still baffled why that wol was working from a powered off mode, but not anymore. Thanks for the tips, i like this new power on/off feature, but is their any suggestions on the wol if the server is off, not sleeping? thanks again.

Ok, so now this is what I have in my s3.sh script: #!/bin/bash drives="/dev/sda /dev/sdb /dev/sdc /dev/sdd /dev/sde /dev/sdf /dev/sdg" timeout=5 count=5 while [ 1 ] do hdparm -C $drives | grep -q active if [ $? -eq 1 ] then count=$[$count-1] else count=$timeout fi if [ $count -le 0 ] then # Do pre-sleep activities sleep 5 # Go to sleep /bin/sync /bin/config/beep-down echo 3 > /proc/acpi/sleep # Do post-sleep activities ethtool -s eth0 speed 1000 ethtool -s eth0 wol gp /boot/config/been-up sleep 5 count=$timeout fi # Wait a minute echo COUNT $count sleep 60 done and my 'go' script below: #!/bin/bash # Start the Management Utility /usr/local/sbin/emhttp & sleep 30 for i in /dev/md* do blockdev --setra 2048 $i done nohup awk -W re-interval -f listen.awk >/dev/null 2>&1 & CTRLALTDEL=YES LOGSAVE=30 installpkg /boot/packages/powerdown-1.02-noarch-unRAID.tgz sysctl -w kernel.poweroff_cmd="/sbin/powerdown" #echo "powerdown" | at 23:59 ethtool -s eth0 wol g /boot/config/s3.sh Im assuming that the 'sleep 5' indicates that once all HDDs fall asleep, 5 minutes later the server sleeps? Also, the 'go' and s3.sh seem corrent for my requirements? Thanks.

My concern is syncing the disks and stopping the unraid server gracefully. I was recently trailing the "echo 3 > /proc/acpi/sleep" in a script to sleep the server and a magic packet wol wakes up my server, which works fine. I was able to power off my server using the "powerdown" command and use a wol magic packet to power it back on, but that feature has somehow stopped working. I would love to get that working again. I worried that always using this "echo 3 > /proc/acpi/sleep" command to sleep the unit and the magic packet to wake it up would do harm to the disks/data/parity, It this correct? So your saying that the s2ram is far better for the concerns that I've raised? Can you suggest why I can't get the wol packet to power back on my server? I have S3 STR and WOL LAN enabled too, and verified that the "ethtool -s eth0 -g" is enabled, its baffling me that wol doesn't work no more. My NIC act/connect leds doesn't illuminate when it is off, but my switch detects it still have my servers NIC still connected. Thanks.